Beams delivered to new Holmes fairgrounds

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Jan 30, 2016 at 5:00 AM

Several tons of steel were delivered to the new Holmes County fairgrounds at Harvest Ridge on Monday morning as work on the 38,000-square-foot Tom, Eva and Sterling Humrichouser Livestock Building continues with hopes of completion in late spring. Target date to have all the work done at Harvest Ridge ideally would be before the Holmes County Fair opens Aug. 8.

Sterling Humrichouser died in February 2015, and decided to leave a portion of the proceeds from the sale of his estate to the Holmes County fairgrounds. More than $6 million has been raised through grants and donations, both cash and in-kind. Holmes County Fair Board President Kerry Taylor says he doesn't believe a project like this could be accomplished anywhere else other than Holmes County.

Ivan Weaver Construction is the general contractor, and company president Mark Weaver commented that he had never worked on a building pad that had been so neatly prepped in December, which was a by-product of the unseasonably warm winter we have enjoyed so far.

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